Another missing link in the chain

Quick, call the production team at Primeval! Maybe they can work this one in for series three… the missing crocodile link.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of prehistoric predator that represented a “missing link” to modern-day crocodiles.

The well-preserved fossil of Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a medium-sized lizard-like predator measuring about 5 1/2 feet (1.7 meters) from head to tail, dates back about 80 million years to the Late Cretaceous period.

From Reuters => Brazil finds fossil of missing link to crocodile | Reuters

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